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CVE-2016-9830

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The MagickRealloc function in memory.c in Graphicsmagick 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large dimensions in a jpeg image.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• GraphicsMagick: 1.3.25
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1, 42.2
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/38d0f281e8c8
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00141.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94625
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/12/01/graphicsmagick-memory-allocation-failure-in-magickrealloc-memory-c
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401536
• http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/38d0f281e8c8
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00141.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3746
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/05/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94625

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